The Wicked Stage

The hoariest question songwriters get asked is: Which comes first, the words or the music? Stephen Sondheim’s answer has always been: the...

I first saw Stew performing in the mid-1990s with a band improbably named Crazy Sound All-Stars at the Onyx coffeehouse in Los Feliz; I...

This interview originally appeared in the April 12, 2001 issue of Back Stage West . "How's my light?" asked Laurie Metca...

Mother Courage and Her Children: Alexandria Wailes, Streep, Geoffrey Arend, and Frederick Weller. (photo by Michal Daniel) Improbably,...

photo by Sara Krulwich for The New York Times This excellent piece by my colleague Eric Grode, looking back at 50 years of Fiddler me...

Tom Bell and Ian McKellen in the London premiere of Bent , 1979. A major revival of Martin Sherman's play Bent begins performance...

I was recently contracted to write a preview of the Broadway transfer of Hamilton for Time Out NY , but the piece was spiked in favor...